Let's Get Personal

My wife Samantha is an artist and an Emmy Award winning art educator at The Frist Art Museum. She makes a great companion in travel and life.

My daughter Sophia is amazing. She is wild and artistic and loves to make people laugh. That is Velma in the bike basket.

I was raised on cello lessons but fell in love with guitar years later when my Dad taught me Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice". I write songs, record, make beats, and play open mic nights.

I'm an Eagle Scout and I love the outdoors. This is a photo with my brothers.

I listen to audiobooks while I'm editing photos. I usually get through 40 per year. I'm always looking for recommendations and ready to dish them out.

Last year I turned 40 and my mid-life crisis has included joining adult softball and soccer leagues, playing more tennis, and doing a daily cross-fit workout but no new sports car for me.

I love adventure. I've run with the bulls in Pamplona, hiked the Inka trail to Machu Picchu in Peru, visited Petra in Jordan, the Taj Mahal in India, the Pyramids in Giza, kayaked the bio-luminescence in Puerto Rico & been diving in the Red Sea. I love deserts and rain forests and also the woods behind my home. My favorite place to go camping is Fall Creek Falls here in TN.

I grew up on a farm in Santa Fe, TN and went to Father Ryan High School. I went to college at Ole Miss, MTSU and UT Knoxville where I took a photojournalism class that changed my life. I worked at Vanderbilt before going full time with photography.